I'm working with some very old 8" HS media (doing data recovery) from a
Lanier Word processor. It's still pretty early in the process, but it
looks as if the AES folks used a 12-bit processor.
It's just a wild guess based on some bit patterns I'm seeing. Can anyone
verify this? I'm guessing that the year is about 1975/76 or so.
Cheers,
Chuck
I don't have the bandwidth to even archive, let alone mirror anything substantial, but might it be a good idea for someone to
look into archiving/possibly getting permission to mirror a chunk of TechPubs and the public patches?
I'm still looking into converting the IRIX 4 subsytems from IDO 5.3 to runnable setups for IRIX 4.0.5. (since IDO 5.3 is
freely available . . .). Does anyone know how to build an inst package on early IRIX (3.3-4.0.5?) No Software Packager, and
all the docs talk about using swpkg. . . .
Picked up the prime today. I won't get a chance to have a good look at
it until the weekend. It is in excellent condition. It has a system
log with every update written down, every service report from prime.
Also manuals for software and user guides. Also nothing has been
deleted from the 2 hard drives since it left the university.
Dan
So is there a working version of Zork/Advent/Dungeon/cave/...
that is easily packaged as a software kit for simh?
-Eric
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> I've got at least one of almost
> every early box SGI produced: PI, Indigo, Indigo2, Indy, O2, Octane, Octane2,
> Crimson, Onyx RE2, Onyx IR
Hopefully someone will save examples of the 4D series and the software
for them.
I think there are still a few of the 68k machines around (though probably
none the earliest of the 1xxx series with CPUs based on the SUN design.
It may be time to put up the docs on the 68K machines that I've had buried
in storage along with a copy of the SGI 68K FAQ I helped with years ago.
The Chrislin dual floppy / winchester in the 11/73 should use an AED
controller since they OEMed them from us. It simulates a DY and DL.
Disturbing thing is I don't see the
AED dual wide WINC05 controller card in the backplane.
Someone wrote to me....
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Hi There!
We came across your website and would like to get some additional information in regards to the assistance in finding a good home for the (2) PDP-11 systems that we have in our shop, hopefully at a benefit to us too! As you can see from the attached photos, they are a bit aged and have been out of commission for some time. Please let me know if you think.
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I put the pictures up at www.ezwind.net/jwest/cleveland
At one point I would have taken this myself just cause it's close... but... too little time :)
If interested, email me off-list.
Jay West
